Honeycomb

Founded by Charity Majors in 2016

Monitor distributed systems and trace application issues

Pricing model

Free Tier, Paid

Rating

★ Positive

Time to value

< 5 Hours

You can use Honeycomb to inspect and debug your production software systems in real time. It captures event telemetry across microservices, allowing you to trace requests end-to-end and uncover the root cause of errors. You can run fast queries against high-cardinality data without pre-aggregating metrics. It also provides tools to monitor large language models and multi-agent AI systems, track token costs, investigate latency spikes, and set service level objectives that alert you before outages impact your end users.

What Honeycomb does

Query production event data in under ten secondsRun root cause analysis on application errors using BubbleUpTrace distributed HTTP and gRPC calls across backend servicesConfigure OpenTelemetry data pipelines for system telemetryTrack token costs and model latency per user sessionSet up service level objectives and alert rules for critical pathsInspect heatmaps to spot hidden anomalies in request durationsHigh-cardinality query engine for arbitrary event data without pre-aggregationBubbleUp tool to identify outlier attributes and root causes in secondsDistributed tracing across distributed microservices and serverless functionsLLM and AI agent observability to monitor token costs and latencyService Level Objectives (SLOs) to track budget burn and trigger alertsNative OpenTelemetry support without vendor lock-inCanvas and MCP server integration for debugging with AI agentsHeatmap visualizations to detect performance anomalies across user cohorts

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free tier, Paid

PlanList price

FreeFree

Pro$150 / mo

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